A few nice book images I found:

Devil Dogs Comics No. 1, 1943

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From the Comic Book Collection (COLL/5207), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections

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Image from page 44 of “Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, K.G. To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana” (1822)

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Identifier: aedesalthorpiana02spen
Title: Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, K.G. To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana
Year: 1822 (1820s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Rare books Incunabula
Publisher: London : Printed by W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press [etc.]
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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(on a i) thus: Bita 1 ptoai^n^ imcti Ctjome cantuancnjSi,!^ martpcisf ^sfupcr iificrtatc tt Nearly the same title is repeated^ prefixed to the prologue. Thesignatures run to m in eights; m has sLx: which concludes the fifthbook of the biography. Then a table, on signature A four: next, asupplemental treatise by P. Bertrandus, which contains, according toan ancient ms. memorandvmi, many things most worthy to be known.This occupies a a in eights, and b b with ten leaves. On the recto ofbb 10, is the colophon thus : aJrpiicit (juiti liBcHuj^ be iuri^bictione cccl aftica, factiisf p tiiim pctriim .Bertratii, i in cofilio Jucnictibu^ plat^rcgni frantic i fiotcnu.i^ in gallico petigm ticputatum erparte ip02f plato2frcatat^: 5[mprefj8fui^ parifjj per nigfm MISCELLANEOUS. gioftcm pfjili ppt nlcmanu ♦ 3!« ^ico fctiacobi. ati interfignium fancte fiarbare51lnno titti niiHcfimo quatJnjeteftmononagcsiiTio quinto , fcoa 3IIprUi^, An elegant^ and rather striking device is on the reverse thus: 33

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1036. Beli^ovacensis (Vincentii) SpeculumHisTORiALE. Printed by Mentelin, 3 Vols.Folio. 1473. Unfortunately, the fourth volume, which completes the edition, andcontains the above date, is wanting. This edition is important in acollection like the present, inasmuch as it is the only known workto which the name of Mentelin is subjoined in the colophon.* It * His name appears in the prefatory part of the volume, entitled De Arte Pradicandi,&ic. as given in vol. i. p. 179, of the Bibliotheca Spenceriana.VOL II. F 34 IMISCELLANEOUS. is executed in a very neat roman, broad-faced tjpe, and consideringits extent, is a very surprising production of early typography. Thereare neither numerals, signatures, nor catchwords. The most materialthing, in a necessarily abridged account, Avill be to give a fac-simile ofthe colophon—in which the name of the printer thus occurs : EXpLiaX.pRIMVM.VOLVMEN.SpECVLI.HISTORIALIS.IMpRESSVM .pER-IOHANNEM-MENTELLIN-. This copy is handsomely bound in dark russ

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